Say cheese! || Stracciatella: Burrata's soft heart

Say cheese! || Stracciatella: Burrata's soft heart

Stracciatella is not just a kind of gelato, it is also a type of cheese and more precisely, a cheese made with the soft heart of Burrata

It is produced in Puglia, Basilicata and Molise, generally with cow milk but can also be made with bufala milk. 

Find recipes and pairings with Stracciatella ad read the romantic story of her I.G.P. sister, Burrata.

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Cocomero, the Apulian local wonder || Neither cucumber nor melon

Cocomero, the Apulian local wonder || Neither cucumber nor melon

Salento, the land of Caroselli and Cocomeri and a farm-to-table restaurant between the Trulli

Don't call them cucumbers, nor melons or watermelons. Puglia's cocomeri are much more: born from a natural hybridation of cucumber and melon and cultivated for centuries in this area, they are a perfect exemple of Puglia's food biodiversity treasure.

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Saving heirloom beans || I fagioli dell'Orto Felice

Saving heirloom beans || I fagioli dell'Orto Felice

My family's organic farm, L'Orto Felice, rescues and protects ancient varieties of beans in Udine, Italy.

When "beans" becomes a synonym of concentrated drops of history, land, families and love. 

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